Week 10

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Topics

Ireland after World War 2

The Troubles (1)

Tutorial Focus Questions

How effectively did the Irish state respond to changing expectations of its citizens in the decades following World War II?

Essential Reading

Keogh, Dermot, Twentieth Century Ireland: Nation and State (Dublin, 1994), pp.214–42.

Recommended Readings

Clear, Catriona, Women of the House: Women’s Household Work in Ireland 1922–1961 (Dublin, 2000) [short loan].
Coogan, Tim Pat, De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow (London, 1993) [short loan].
Doherty, Richard, Irish Men and Women in the Second World War (Dublin, 1999). [short loan].
Fallon, Brian, An Age of Innocence: Irish Culture 1930–1960 (New York, 1998) [short loan].
Foster, Roy, Modern Ireland, 1600–1972 (London, 1988) [short loan].
Gray, Tony, The lost years: the emergency in Ireland, 1939-45 (London, 1997) [short loan].
Hayes, Alan and Diane Urquhart (eds.), The Irish women’s history reader (London, 2001) [short loan].
Hoppen, K. Theodore, Ireland Since 1800: Conflict and Conformity (London, 1999) [short loan].
Jackson, Alvin, Ireland 1798-1998: Politics and War (Oxford, 1999) [short loan].
Keogh, Dermot, Twentieth Century Ireland: Nation and State (Dublin, 1994) [short loan].
Lee, J. J. Ireland 1912–1985, Politics and Society (Cambridge, 1989) [short loan].
Townshend, C. Ireland—the twentieth century (London, 1999) [short loan].

Lecture Outlines

 

1. Irish Neutrality in World War II
2. Post-War Politics & Republic of Ireland Act, 1948
3. Ireland in the 1950s

J. J. Lee, Ireland 1912-1985, Politics and Society (Cambridge, 1989)
Dermot Keogh, Twentieth Century Ireland: Nation and State (Dublin, 1994)
Brian Fallon, An Age of Innocence: Irish Culture 1930-1960 (New York, 1998)

Fine Gael
John Costello Clan na Poblachta
Séan McBride
Fianna Fáil
Commission on Emigration
Industrial Development Authority
Noel Brown
T. K. Whitaker
SŽan Lemass
Jack Lynch
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade


Ireland After World War II